Word: rulers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Neither side is likely to underestimate the difficulty involved in reaching an agreement. India feels that Kashmir is rightfully hers despite an overwhelming Moslem population--the Hindu ruler preferred to stay out of Mohammedan Pakistan. She claims that the invading Punjab tribesmen have the backing of the Pakistan, Government and points out that the raiders have recently used light artillery and are singularly well equipped. Pakistan naturally feels that Kashmir is wrongfully in the enemy camp, but at the same time claims that the fault lies not with her, but with an Indian which is charged with trying to ruin...
...thin. The Prince's father, King Umberto I, decided to improve the breed by marrying off little (5 ft. 3 in.) Victor Emmanuel.to booming, strapping (6 ft.) Elena, daughter of Montenegro's peasant king, Nicholas. In his 46 years as King of Italy, and sometime ruler of Albania and Ethiopia, Victor Emmanuel confirmed his father's early suspicion that there was room for improvement...
There he summoned the rulers of some two dozen eastern states who had so far not joined India. All but one (the tribesman ruler of Ranpur) are Hindus; their states are peopled largely by the aborigines. Patel ordered the princes to surrender all their powers. In return they could keep their titles, personal property, and get a tax-free pension (7½ to 15% of their states' incomes). More than a dozen, in a midnight ceremony, signed Patel's terms. Next morning, Patel got on a train for Nagpur, capital of the Central Provinces. But Patel...
...States Ministry hinted that about 340 other rulers would soon be converted into remittance men. "There are in India," said Patel ominously, "about 500 small states*-more than the total number of independent states in the world. Former alien rulers of our land preserved them like pickles, but now paramountcy has gone and India has become free." When one ruler asked whether India would guarantee that his new pension would be permanent, Patel answered, "Nobody can provide for all times...
Sometimes the world that survives him thinks of George, father of the Duke, as an amiable successor to the gay and worldly Edward VII, and of his mother, Queen Mary, as the ruler of the family. But the Duke describes his late father as a stern sea dog, a domestic martinet who lived on a clockwork schedule and refused to let David go to public (private) schools lest they teach him bad habits. (" 'The Navy will teach him all that he needs to know...